Philips 109B2

The Philips 109B2 also follows the unhappy trend of supplying manuals on CD; however good the manual, we want paper! The 109B2 has a software feature called LightFrame that boosts brightness and sharpness in a defined screen area, but we found it to have limited utility. The price is right and performance is generally good, although video bandwidth was low.

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Bruce Brown, a PC Magazine Contributing Editor, is a former truck driver, aerobics instructor, high school English teacher, therapist, and adjunct professor (gypsy) in three different fields (Computing, Counseling, and Education) in the graduate departments of three different colleges and universities (Wesleyan University , St. Joseph College, and the University of Hartford). In the fall of 1981 he was bitten by the potentials of personal computing and conspired to leave the legitimacy of academia for a life absorbed in computer stuff. In the fall of 1982...
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